unrepentantAuthor
A cat who writes stories
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factory farm breeding
That's not mass-manufacture. Call me a pedant if you like, but it's not automated or standardised and it's a slow, slow process.
Only the small ones. If you're inside an elevator, you can't exactly deploy an Onyx
Why is that relevant? You can't use an onyx in an elevator, therefore nobody would choose to use pokémon as a weapon? That's a very specific circumstance and pokémon — there are many larger public spaces one might wish to intimidate someone in, and many smaller pokémon to do it with.
And, actually, most people in Europe don't live in those conditions.
Yeah, I know. So releasing a large animal that's under you control and has magic powers around Europeans might intimidate them a little, surely?
And explosives can kill people with no training at all. It doesn't take much effort to figure out how to use a detonator or pull a pin. That doesn't change the fact that actually having explosives or Pokemon requires far more training and experience than shooting a gun does. If you don't know how to make a bomb, you can't make an explosive; if you don't know how to feed a Pokemon, you can't have one that will fight for you. Yet, you don't need to know anything at all about shooting or firearm operation to still kill people with a gun.
Honestly, that's fair. But everyone seems to have a pokémon in the anime and games and so on, so it can't be that big a deal, really.
I'm not seeing any reason they would be.
If all the stuff I've been saying doesn't persuade you, it doesn't persuade you. I'm fine with leaving it here.
Doesn't the UK have a problem with people illegally importing guns just to shoot others with? Last I heard, gun-related violence and deaths were on the rise there. I would think that if simple access to options with as much effectiveness were enough, you wouldn't have that problem.
I'm not interested in discussing real world topics unless it's directly relevant to pokémon or at least to prose fiction.